Their Yesterdays

Most novelists write about characters who are "tested" by one or more of the universally accepted "principles" of life (job success, success in love, learning from mistakes, etc.). This determines the book's conflict. But Wright chooses to write about the "principles" themselves, and is not concerned with character at all. It's as if Homer wrote about the characteristics of a great warrior but left Achilles out. It's a strange approach. He lists 13 "truly great things of life" (included are occupation, religion, temptation, failure, success, love, etc.), and each chapter in the book explores one "great thing" through a nameless man and woman (Everyman). It's a bloodless novel because the characters are mere puppets on a stage conveying the ideas behind Wright's 13 "great things." -- customer review

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